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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Jdcomix ( talk) 01:19, 18 February 2018 (UTC) reply

M. J. Kang

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Minor performer and playwright. Most Dora Award winners do not have their own articles. Orange Mike | Talk 03:16, 4 February 2018 (UTC) reply

• KEEP i have cited few reliable references and now the article fulfill criteria as per Wikipedia guidelines Truembp ( talk) 11:36, 4 February 2018 (UTC) reply

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• Delete nothing indicated the subject meets the notability guidelines for actors.02:57, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
• Keep. I grant that nothing here is a particularly strong WP:NACTOR pass as JPL points out just above me, but that completely misses the point: what she does have is a credible WP:NAUTHOR pass as a playwright. Dora nominations (the exact literal equivalent of a Tony Award, once you realize that "they're less notable just because I've never heard of them" is not a thing) do count as a potentially valid notability claim — the thing being, just as with many film awards, that the public-face categories (actors, directors and writers) are generally much more likely to have quality reliable source coverage about them than the behind-the-scenes ones (lighting, costume design, etc.) do. So it's not exactly true that "most Dora winners don't have articles" — the truth is that it depends on the category, just the same way as the actors and directors and screenwriters in a Genie Award or Canadian Screen Award article are much more likely to actually be blue links than the costume designers and cinematographers are. The actors and playwrights from a Dora nominations list are more likely to have Wikipedia articles as a rule, and for any class of topic there's always a distinction between whether similar people do have articles or not and whether they can have articles or not — we're missing articles about many members of the Parliament of Ghana and the Maine House of Representatives, too — but that doesn't mean they're not notable, it just means people haven't gotten around to getting them finished yet. Kang gets more than enough hits on a ProQuest search to repair this, as well: the sourcing problems here have less to do with coverage not existing, because it does, and more to do with the fact that she appears to have taken a hiatus during the very time when we were starting to get stricter about sourcing articles properly. So she's not non-notable, she was just "out of sight, out of mind" for a while. This is entirely repairable, I'll take a stab at it right now. Bearcat ( talk) 04:13, 5 February 2018 (UTC) reply
• Keep the article has been substantially improved since nomination and has references to reliable sources including The Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and National Post and so passes WP:GNG. Notable awards and reviews also pass WP:CREATIVE " has received significant critical attention". Atlantic306 ( talk) 19:07, 5 February 2018 (UTC) reply

• Keep per these edits. -- Donald Trung ( Talk) ( Articles) 06:30, 11 February 2018 (UTC) reply
• Keep I added links from some of the Toronto Star citations to their newspaper archives so you can see some of the source text. Appears to have significant coverage satisfying GNG. Lonehexagon ( talk) 16:31, 14 February 2018 (UTC) reply

Just for the record, that's not actually a useful thing to do. If we can't provide a link to the entire text of an article, then there's no value in providing a link to a mere abstract of it. Wikipedia has no requirement whatsoever that our sources actually have to be web-accessible at all — we are allowed to cite print-only content, such as paper or microfilm copies of newspapers or magazines or books, so we should only provide a convenience URL if one exists for the complete text of the source. Bearcat ( talk) 22:07, 14 February 2018 (UTC) reply

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